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The following is a list of aircraft used by Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) since its formation on June 18, 1946. Aircraft ... North American P-51D ...
Italy: Transport 7 [1] Piaggio P.180: Italy: VIP: 6 11 on order [1] Airbus A319CJ: European Union: VIP: 3 [6] Airbus A340-500: European Union: VIP: 1 [7] I-TALY: unused since 2018, parked and abandoned at Rome Fiumicino Airport, disputed ownership between Etihad Airways and the Air Force Dassault Falcon 50: France: VIP: 2 [8] Dassault Falcon ...
A mid-air collision between a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a General Dynamics F-16D Fighting Falcon caused a ground crash at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. The F-16 hit and destroyed a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter parked on the tarmac, and flaming wreckage careened into paratroopers preparing for a practice drop, killing 24 and injuring many ...
A flight of four Lockheed F-104G Starfighters of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) crash in formation into a field near the village of Ralingen near the border with Luxembourg, ~12 miles S of Bitburg, West Germany, shortly after take-off from Bitburg Air Base, killing all four pilots. The four jets flown by an Italian Air ...
Squadron Leader K. L. Narayan was lost with the aircraft. [1] 22 May A U.S. Air Force Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star of the 1st Composite Wing, Andrews AFB, Maryland, crashed just short of the north runway on approach to that base, killing pilot Maj. John H. McDowell Jr., 37, Clinton, Maryland, and Lt. Edwin D. Billmeyer, 24, of Baltimore ...
A US Air Force North American F-100C Super Sabre [102] of the 136th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 107th Tactical Fighter Group, New York Air National Guard, departed Niagara Falls Air Force Base, New York, on a training flight to Erie, Pennsylvania, but pilot Lt. Edward Metlot, of New York City, was informed by his wingman that his plane was on fire.
The Air Force said the pilot, Col. Arthur R. DeBolt, 39, of Columbus, O., apparently mistook the B-17 "mother" plane for an uninhabited radio controlled drone which it was guiding. Col. DeBolt described by the Air Force in Washington as "an exceptional officer," was grief stricken at the error, and said he was unable to explain it.
Aircraft destroyed on impact. The Air Force disclosed on 28 September "that the survivors of the crash were Capt. Joseph S. Butler, 33 years old, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a student defensive officer; Capt. Lawrence H. Haskell, 33, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania., a student aircraft commander, and Maj. William H. Price, 42, of Yuma, Arizona ...